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Herman Vance
	
H. W. Vance and W. C. Grainger applied for a townsite at Robinson siding on the White Pass & Yukon Route rail line after a gold strike on Gold Hill, in the Wheaton River area, caused a stampede of prospectors and would-be miners in the district in 1906.((Colin Beairsto, "Today and Tomorrow Country: Wheaton Mining History". Prepared for Heritage Resources Unit, Yukon Government. March 2005: 8.)) Grainger filed for 160 acres on the west side of the rail line and Vance filed for the same amount of land on the east. Grainger was killed accidently in his mine in 1907 while he still owed for the land. Vance and Louis [Lewis Napoleon] Markle, who had a roadhouse on the property, tried to acquire the land but it reverted to the government.((Notes from Werner Walcher. [need source])) 

Vance built a substantial house in Carcross in 1909 after he gave up his position as manager of the Venus Mine and became the superintendent of The Big Thing Mine. He lived in this house during the early years of Big Thing's operation and then sold the house to Mr. Brown, the custom's officer.((“McMurphy House.” Carcross Historic Buildings Walking Tour, 1998: 6.))
 
In May 1920, after years of being the manager of the Conrad properties at Conrad and Carcross, Herman Vance accepted a position with a company that will operate the Rainy Hollow copper mines under bond from Martin Conway and associates.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 14 May 1920.))